Alex Does dmesg give any infomation on the network like link up or down ? I have seen this happening sometimes in heavy load conditions when the network card simply goes down hardware-wise and starts flipping !
On 8/21/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have 2 boxes, 1 is my nfs server - which hold all my home directories, > the > other is a processing machine, which loads the users home directories via > nfs > > my mount in the fstab > > hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au:/home/alex /home/alex > nfs > rw,auto,noatime,nouser,async,nodev,suid,_netdev,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 > 0 0 > > > what happens is after a while the nfs get locked and I get these in dmesg > > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au not responding, still trying > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au not responding, still trying > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au not responding, still trying > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au OK > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au OK > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au OK > > > the only way to unlock it is to restart the nfs server and then everything > starts working fine ???? one other thing that is different is I have an > mtu of > 9100 between these to servers, but I have had this in place for a while. > > these are the packages installed on the server > > ii nfs-common 1:1.1.0-11 NFS support > files > common to client and server > ii nfs-kernel-server 1:1.1.0-11 support for > NFS > kernel server > > > and on the client > > ii nfs-common 1:1.1.0-11 NFS support > files > common to client and server > ii nfs-kernel-server 1:1.1.0-11 support for > NFS > kernel server > > > I am not sure where to start looking first as the client machine locks up > hard > till I restart the nfs........ > > Alex > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGypNIkZz88chpJ2MRAi2HAJ9QoKe1JnTqJeMSPG0BarBMn8PREACfQ633 > +J3BUkEEwBETfT1L8a4jWK0= > =TsfV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
